Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-09-29
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the latter comprehend.
Sunday bull-tights have been added
to the list of entertainments for visi-
tors at Los Angeles, Cal.
1t is curious scientific fact that all
tho elements of the poison found in
| rattlesnake are inherent in the COM
mon Irish potato.
A Pennsylvania dog has a legacy of
$1,000, the interest being used for his
support. After his death the fund
goes to church.
A printer up in Canada is said to be
103 years old. He has made so many
typographical errors during his career
that he is afraid to die.
A family at Baysidc, l.. l., has had
narrow escape from general extinc-
ton, though the substitution by tho
cook of oxalic acid for vinegar.
In Germany householders are al
lowed to treat trospassing cats and
dogs as beasts of prey; that is, they
can kill them in any way they choose.
An Albany barber says there's not
half the danger in being shaved from
the public cups in a barber shop as
being brushed with the public hair
brush.
A faith doctor near Richmond, No.,
has secured a large number of pa
tients, whom he treats by hanging
mink skins about their necks and tell
ing them to feel sure that he will cure
them.
There is beautiful uncertainty
about the value of copper cents in
Mexico. In Vera Cruz, for instance,
it takes l0i of them to make 81, while
in Chihuaha ninety-fye will pass
for 81.
Syracuse boasts of having the big
gest dog in the world He weighs 203
pounds and measures 6 feet and 3
inches from nose to tail. He is nearly
two years old and was born in En-
gland.
The Berlin police photograph crimi-
nails in profile so as to show the left
ear. The theory is that the features of
the face change, but the ear does not.
and also that no two persons have
identical ears.
A dog was about to attack monkey
belonging to an organ grinder. As
the dog rushed on the monkey lifted |
his hat and gracefully saluted, when |
the dogs tail and head dropped and |
he sneaked away.
Ionic Lafon of New Orleans is the |
only millionaire of African lineage in |
this country The Georgia negro |
woman, to whom David Dickson left |
his money, is therefore not the richest !
colored person.
John p. Campbell. United States |
consul at Tamatave, Madagascar, has |
been well received by the queen of |
that country. In fact, her majesty |
has gone SO far as to send him pre-
sent of bullock, six chickens, and |
two geese.
The United States pays every year |
for cigars and cigarettes $lS6, 800, 900 |
and so, 900, 900 for tobacco smoked in |
pipes TO this il adds the cost Of |
chewing tobacco. $50. 900. 800, bringing
the entire tobacco bill for the year up |
TO 1886, 100000.
The famous old Mr.. Parr of London |
died at 155 from sarfeit OF eating. |
Coming down to the present there are |
many instances of passing Tie century |
limit Chevreul. the famous French |
chemist. celebrated the Tooth ami |
versary of his birth short time ago.
Felix Pyat is candidate for the |
French Senate upon = rather radical /
platform. Il shall enter tie Senate"
he writes, "as a cartridge Of dynamite,
to blow up if can that obstruction
to the Republic, and reduce the Lux
Ia. ya
Mss Howard s.; Clair, handsome
California book agent. has brought
suit for SlO0,00 against Walter Glib
son, ex-Prcmer of the Hawaiian King
dom, for alleged trifiing with her
tonder affections. Mr.. Gibson is over
20 years of age. but hale and vigorous.
When the prince of Wales break
fasts 'he likes the solid toasted muffin,
the pink-and-whi slices Of home
cured ham, the generous section OF
Melton Mowbray pork pic, grilled
chops tianked with kidneys broiled on
silver fork, plenty of good thick
cream, and butter"
Alb !. in Erie county, Pa. has
curiosity in shape of clock which
stands seven feet high, operated by
chains and great weights, the dial
bearing old Roman figures, with the
entire works made of lockwood and
bearings of pure ivory. 1t is a per-
feet time-kccper and upward of 100
years old.
The people of this country spend
annually over $1,000, 900 for singing
birds. All the warbliug in Italian and
German from behind the footlights
docs not equal in cost. therefore, the
twittering of the feathered pets in
their gildcd cages. Nearly half
million birds are imported into this
country every year.
A st. Paul dog was very fond Of the
house cat. One evening he was seen
coming from the shadow of neigh
boris fence with a hen in his mouth.
After hiding it he went for the cat,
which he seized by the neck and
dragged to the fence. He tore the
chicken into pieces and helped the cat
to the choicest scraps.
Nearly all the black-headed pins in
the market are made from needles
which are broken in tho factories in
testing the eyes. Any one who has
handled the biack-hcaded pins has
probably noticed their remarkable
sharpness as compared with the ordi-
nary white pins sold in the market.
This is the explanation-tha they are
old needles.
Mr.. Gladstone relates that when he
was young and ardent tory at Ok
ford be yentured to expostulate with
liberal workmen. he urged him to
beware of these revolutionary notions
and besought him to take warning by
the fate of France. The workman
broke out with: Oh your foreign
nations! What has that got to do with
old England?"
When are we oldp Prof Faraday
holds that the duration of life in man
and animal is five times the period of
growth; mans growth requires twenty
years; he should, therefore, under
ordinary circumstances, live to be
100; infancy extending to the goth
wear; youth to the 50th, when the
tissues become firm; virility to as, and
old age from 20 to 100.
Some Of the lawyers of Rutland,
VT, are complaining bitterly about
the law business, and say if it keeps
on declining as il has during the last